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2 Pesos
| Issuer | Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) - Argentine Administration |
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| Year | 1824-1829 |
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| Currency | Peso |
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| Obverse lettering | Nº 2 PESOS. Este VALE se recibe en esta Isla de MALVINAS en cambio por comestibles, ó géneros, ó en la ciudad de BUENOS AIRES, á la vista en moneda metálica, por via de una órden dada por el que subscribe. |
| Reverse description | Reverse is entirely blank, printed on plain white paper with no text, ornamentation, or underprint. |
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This note sits at one of the more contested intersections of South American monetary history. Following Buenos Aires' claim over the islands in 1820, a short-lived Argentine administration attempted to establish basic governing infrastructure — including, apparently, some form of paper currency. The P#S102 designation places it in the speculative or provisional issues category, and documentation on actual circulation is thin at best.
The date range 1824–1829 brackets the tenure of the Argentine settlement before its violent disruption by the gaucho mutiny of 1829 and subsequent British reassertion of sovereignty in 1833. Whether these notes saw any meaningful exchange on the islands or functioned primarily as administrative instruments remains genuinely unclear.